Adopted as children and heirs
Prof. Ronald Cammenga expounds on the doctrine of adoption, explaining that believers are adopted children of God through sovereign grace rather than by nature, and grounding this truth in the Reformed confessions, particularly the Heidelberg Catechism. The article emphasizes how adoption should frame Christian identity and motivate believers to live for God's honor as His beloved children, providing both motivation for holy living and comfort in assurance of God's fatherly love.
Prof. Ronald Cammenga, rector and professor of Dogmatics and Old Testament in the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary and member of Southwest PRC in Wyoming, Michigan We are the children of God. This is our distinction! This is the great honor that has been bestowed on us! "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (I John 3:2). This is the reality that must...
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